CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The A's are in the `OC' form; the E is closed; the Rs are open-bowed and majuscule and the D has an ascender which bends to the left over an open bow. Some of the letters also have wedge-shaped finials, seen most clearly on the D.

Legibility:

someMacalister/1909, 18: `the A [at the beginning of the second line] is lost by a flake'.